398 cube Vortech blown SVO.
This damn thing cost me as much as the rest of the car!!! Read the specs below the photo.
The plan had always been to build a motor with a reasonable amount of horsepower. Maybe 400 or 450. This would make the car a fun weekend circuit racing car, and still useable on the street. Some alloy heads and a 750 Holley, good ignition etc, etc.
Then I got onto the internet and found out how much power the Mustang guys in the States were making with their Vortech supercharged motors. Street cars running low 10 and high 9 second times.... I started asking some guys what combinations they were running. It seemed that their combinations weren't all that radical - mainly good cylinder heads, 15psi boost and near stock bottom ends!!! That was it - I was going to go fuel injected and supercharged...
The most costly thing you can do when thinking about building a motor is read through the Jegs and Summit Racing catalogs. While they certainly have competitive prices, I found myself "upgrading" components to the point where my motor was going to cost nearly double what I'd originally planned. I got onto www.re-racing.com in California about supplying all the parts. That was even more of a mistake...
Having decided that a 2 bolt SVO block and an S-Trim Vortech would give me the power I wanted, I told the guys at R&E what I had planned. They were good to talk to, but all along they kept telling me what the weakest part of the combination was. When I heard about the YS Vortech, I wanted to run more boost. More boost obviously equals more power, so the Eagle rods might not be up to the task. So I got some Crower billet rods. Now the Eagle crank might not be capable, so I bought the SVO A410 sprint car crank. Then the 2 bolt block is a weak link, so I bought a 4 bolt SVO N-351 9.5" block. See what I mean?!? This went on until I ended up with the following combination :
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